Hax0rz!

[social_lawnmower]

A bloke at my school cracked the Australian Governments brand-spanking new $84,000,000 child-safety filter yesterday in 30 minutes.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22304224-2,00.html?from=public_rss

I laughed until I realized that was my tax going into that. Stupid Government.

[Audioslave]

Why the fuck do you have a filter?

Isn't that maddeningly unethical?

[social_lawnmower]

In short, yes.

In response to the why: Because of over-protective mothers with too much spare time in which they can write letters.

[FSBVH]

Damn, when will people learn... tsk tsk. The internet is made for porn for fuck sake, how can you filter that?

[John Travolta]

Google Translator.

[Matterialize]

How the hell does a filter cost $84 million?

[John Travolta]

I don't know but to bypass the filter it only takes 16 years of wasted time on a computer.

[I_Smell]

$84,000,000 just to stop school computers from accessing half the stuff they need to access? How does any filter even cost anywhere near that!?
This is madness.

[Grim]

I really wanna scream THIS IS SPARTA!!. But i guess the Ausies. have a bunch 'o' money and they think they can spend it on anything.

[El Mojado]

My school district has a filter too. We use proxies in order to get around the filters, and log on to myspace, or play some games at miniclip. I'm amazed that this guy bypassed a $84,000,000 porn blocker. My brother is taking computer forensics, and he wants to start hacking, which meaning I could learn from him.

[Q.X]

The kid that got around it deserves a sticker and a high five.
Most of those aren't hard to get around, if you find a decent proxy.

[JonC]

84 million, thats retarded. But I commend the kid someone, for making the goverment feeling like a bunch of nubs.

Filters are stupid sometimes, the filters for the public school system here, is pretty shitty too. Sometimes there would be a site that you found by searchign and you're positive it'll be a good resource, and its fucking blocked. Most kids just got around it with ease. Hell, when we all had our laptops, thats what a lot of kids spent their time doing, finding proxies and other means of getting around teh locks(on the internet and the laptops themselves). Since the laptops were Mac's, they found it a bit difficult, i think, because lots of kids/people are used to pc, and can find out how to get around a pc block easier than a mac. Depending anyway. Crazy how the kids at my school had like a network where they passed around proxies and stuff.

At one point, they even figured out the master password and that shit spread like wildfire. It was Jefferson backward.

[Cap'n Jack]

Either the kid has mad hacking skills or the government has poor programming skills: and I'd take a bet on the latter...

Proof that the government sucks where ever you go.

[junglebunny]

That's nothing, the new filters in spame cost upwards of $1,000,000,000,000,000..

[Aideezy]

My school doesn't have any filters. I would most def. like to meet that kid and shake his hand.

[CheesePlease]

I wish we had kids like that at my school. Most of them freak out when the screensaver pops up.

[Spoons]

Smart kid! But like what everyone else said why would a filter cost 84mil...

[Grim]

84 million, thats retarded. But I commend the kid someone, for making the goverment feeling like a bunch of nubs.

Filters are stupid sometimes, the filters for the public school system here, is pretty shitty too. Sometimes there would be a site that you found by searchign and you're positive it'll be a good resource, and its fucking blocked. Most kids just got around it with ease. Hell, when we all had our laptops, thats what a lot of kids spent their time doing, finding proxies and other means of getting around teh locks(on the internet and the laptops themselves). Since the laptops were Mac's, they found it a bit difficult, i think, because lots of kids/people are used to pc, and can find out how to get around a pc block easier than a mac. Depending anyway. Crazy how the kids at my school had like a network where they passed around proxies and stuff.

At one point, they even figured out the master password and that shit spread like wildfire. It was Jefferson backward.

That's a lot like the high school i go to. Sites being blocked, people finding the mac admin password, it spreading everywere in the school, people unblocking the sites (for easer "schoolwork".) We knew who did it but know one really did a thing. I forgot what the password was though. But rumor had it that it was changed consintly then are laptop usage was cut short. (We needed to ask permistion and the teacher/staff had to watch us when we were using one.) All thanks to one dumbass finding out the mac admin password.

[Matterialize]

Either the kid has mad hacking skills or the government has poor programming skills: and I'd take a bet on the latter...

The kid showed the news crew how to bypass it in "just a few clicks" and he said that any "computer-savvy" kid could do the same thing. I'm betting that he actually did just use some unheard-of proxy.

[Clerlic]

But he also said that the icon was still there, maybe he just killed the process in task manager... The icon stays there until you move your mouse over it.
Anyways, I bet a free open-source filter would do the job much better, good for those guys who got their 84 million bucks, makes me think if I should sell something to US government..

[opn4bzns]

The government fails really, really hard at anything computer related yet again. :saluto:

[Cristo]

A bloke at my school cracked the Australian Governments brand-spanking new $84,000,000 child-safety filter yesterday in 30 minutes.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22304224-2,00.html?from=public_rss

I laughed until I realized that was my tax going into that. Stupid Government.

That's ridiculous, and really funny at the same time. The things governments spend money on, and how much they pay, it's baffling sometimes.

Good on the kid for cracking it and showing the Government though.

[Chardon07]

That's nothing, the new filters in spame cost upwards of $1,000,000,000,000,000..

:D ILL TAKE 7

[SLjimbolian]

That's fucking retarded. Why couldn't schools just purchase the filter programs like Nanny Net or CYBERsitter and install it themselves? $84 mil. of taxpayer money is just inexcusable.


Oh, in related news, a 17-year old kid hacked iPhone.

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070825/BUSINESS/70825001/1001

[Kevosk]

Well knowing how things work in government offices, it probably cost them loads of the money to train people to work with computers, to feed them and shit during training, to purchase the necessary technology so that each moron gets his own computer, loads of money spent of having people test the filters so that they find bugs, but not spending any money on fixing said bugs, then spending more money on the schools so that they can get the same computers which have to be compatible with the ones the government purchased, then the government has to spend more money on other things because police forces and hospitals and all them feel left out from all this money, then they have to pay to train teachers so that they understand how the filter works, and that whole process probably costs upwards of 75 million.

And the whole time they didn't see a proxy coming.

Holy fuck.

[social_lawnmower]

That's fucking retarded. Why couldn't schools just purchase the filter programs like Nanny Net or CYBERsitter and install it themselves? $84 mil. of taxpayer money is just inexcusable.

Yeah, our school uses a program called DansGuardian, but this filter was designed for home use. Believe me, you would have to live over here to believe the things that our politicians make big deals out of.

[Kevosk]

Yeah, our school uses a program called DansGuardian, but this filter was designed for home use. Believe me, you would have to live over here to believe the things that our politicians make big deals out of.

COUGHjackthompsonCOUGH

[social_lawnmower]

Yeah, that guy needs to get out more.

[Oberlin]

COUGHjackthompsonCOUGH

What's he been up to lately anyway? Manhunt 2 comes out soon, and I've heard no protests.

[Valium]

What a loser.

[Mirrorman]

Ahahahaa. Thats just great, a schoolboy cracks a 84mil filter. How can somebody make a filter that costs 84 mil, and is cracked open so easily? What did they do with that money?

[JamesKPolk]

Our school has only a self-made block. I don't know how bad it sucks, beacause I can go to any site I usually go as well in school as home. Some kids whine about miniclip and newgrounds or other sites of that scale blocked, but they have no idea what to block. Well, maybe it's not selfmade, just really really crappy.

[social_lawnmower]

Ahahahaa. Thats just great, a schoolboy cracks a 84mil filter. How can somebody make a filter that costs 84 mil, and is cracked open so easily? What did they do with that money?
Yeah it was funny when he rocked up at school today everyone was like "champ".
Yesterday they upgraded it and let him try again, and he did it in 40 minutes. He's pretty pro.

[Cristo]

He goes to your school?

My school is retarded, you can get around the filter by simply leaving the "www." out of the url :blanky:

Spanish IT people suck.

[FlamingPeanuts]

My old school had a filter in the firewall, but it was as easy as right clicking on the icon in the bottom right and pressing close...

[Wallettheif]

whoa cool

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[Dodger]

Man, I wish I knew enough about computers to do that sort of shit. The filters at our school are annoying as shit.

Although last year, some guy found a way to log in as an administrator and was able to mark people absent, and even put disciplinary sanctions on their record. Messing with the grades was more difficult. Anyway he taught me how to do it, but I think the school caught on when they started giving online classes, because I can't do it anymore.

[NOODLESMOVIE]

Mofunzone and Youda Games wasnt blocked at my school untill mid-late 2008
:(
I know a great computer prank: stuff: stickie notes, pencil
To do the prank write a note to your victim on the stickie notes then stick them over the mouse laser so it wont work, i havnt tried it but i think it was on TV... anyways it will be funneh and it will take a long time for them to figure the prob out and when they do, they will be known that they were pranked >:)

[NOODLESMOVIE]

oh and $18M? THATS CRAZY

[DieHard]

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[Dodger]

hah didn't even notice that

[NOODLESMOVIE]

bumpzorz lol

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[TheHighwaySong]

omg NOODLESMOVIE is da shit XD

[Amazingly]

Our school had a local filter, I had to go to more extreme ends. It sniffed the first packet for the URL, so I used a program that split the first packet of info in half. So I could visit any site I wished and the filter never even caught it. It was custom written for me by a friend of mine majoring in computer science, but still.

Also, installing this (http://anon.inf.tu-dresden.de/index_en.html) on a school machine lets you (almost) keep the bandwidth your school has while having all the advantages of a proxy.

For those of you not able to install anything on your school computers, here is a gem of knowledge that may be useful to pass around among more computer-savvy classmates: to run command prompt from a restricted account, open a NOTEPAD document, type command.com, and save it as COMMAND.BAT, make sure it has that file extension. When you save it, the icon should be a window with a gear in it. Double click it, and up comes command prompt. Just for fun, type NET SEND * HEY THERE and press enter.

Ok, just kidding, that's dangerous. Type in "NET USER [USERNAME] [PASSWORD]" Where [USERNAME] is the name of the admin account (assuming you know it), and [password] is the new password you have picked out for the admin account.

This doesn't work everywhere, because some IT dept. heads are smarter than others. It worked for all of a week at my school, then computer privileges were suspended for a week while the group policy was updated.

HAVE FUN!

[JohnDoe]

I don't consider myself a hacker, but I like to think I'm pretty decent with computers. And I only understand half of what you just said.

[JennaHs_bitch#1]

The school filters we have here are just stupid. You can use pretty much any proxy to get around it. Also they block you from going onto almost EVERY site, even ones that are for school work. Yet I can always get onto catsthatlooklikehitler.com hmmm...

[SlothMan]

We have computers in Australia??